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We now meet our heroes in the competitors' lounge, getting ready for the final round of the Frotune Cup prelimenaries. Katherine Cheshire has got everything ready: deck, disk, and even her favorite neko-sailor costume.

"So, do I look cute or what?"

"Kat, you're just as cute as cute can be!" Ken stated, "You're gonna woo the audience for sure!"

"Meow-wow!" she hopped.

Gabriella came and brought Katherine in for a hug, "Just make sure you play nice, Kat, okay?"

"Okay," she said meekly, "Wait, where's Jason?" everyone ponted to the same spot, with Jason himself fast asleep, again. That's when history once again repeated himself. One little nuzzle and Jason was once again flat on his back.

The scene changes to a dark, dim-litted area. There we saw an unknown figure sat on a small desk, mixing and matching a group of cards, until...

"Divine, you match is about to begin," the foreign voice came from an intercom above.

"Well it's about time," the figure gathered his cards and went on his way, "Finnaly it's my turn to shine."


Without a trace of memory, Jason Issac Hutchins awakens in the back of a ghetto alleyway. This slum is home to bums and criminals who, exiled from the city, bear an inscription called a 'marker' on their faces.

It is there he notices a duel disk attached to his left arm, indicating that he is, in fact a duelist! In days ahead, what kind of destiny awaits him on...

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

Stardust Accelerator

Ride 26: Psycho-Killer

Part 1: Shock Absorber


"Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the final match of the Fortune Cup prelimenaries!" the MC announced, "We've witnessed many amazing duelists, we've observed many mystifying monsters, and beholded many electrifying combos! Now it's time for the final two! Let's begin the forth and final prelimenaries of the Fortune Cup Wild Card!" the crowds went wild.

"Introducing our first opponent, she's cute, she's cuddly, and she's as heavenly as a little 10-year-old cosplayer can be! Duelists of all ages, I present to you: Miss Katherine Cheshire!" soon enough, Katherine ascended from a hydraulic platfrom. Sure enough, no one could stop commenting on how cute she was with her cat-ears on her head.

"And now, for her opponent, he's the... well, we don't exactly know who he is, but let's give a big welcome to Divine!" from another platform, another duelist confronted Katherine: his lime-green hair had a bang that covered most of his right eye, and he wears a white stuff-collared suit. When Katherine took a first glance at her, she knew she wouldn't like him one bit.

"Hey, I know you!" she puffed, "You're the meaney who made fun of Jason!"

"And you're a naive little girl who's in my way," Divine said annoyed, "C'mon, let's duel and get this over with," both duelists activated their disked, inserted their decks and made five opening draws.

"Let's duel!"

Kat: 4000

Divine: 4000


Upon the crowds in the stands, Nathan and Rico met up with Gabrella, along with Ken Matsuda.

Gabriella: "I can't believe I'm going to see my sister duel today!"

Ken: "I'm sure she's just as pumped us as I was!"

Rico: "Go, get 'im, Kat!"

And as by surprised, Jason wedged between Ken and Gabe from one of the seats behind them, "Hi!"

Gabriella, "Jason?"

Ken: "Hey, man! Whacha' doing here? I thought you would still be snoozing in the lounge, with the other semi-finalists."

Jason: "I just thought I'd get a bird's-eye view of the final prelimenaries." "Go, Neko! Show him what you're made of!"


"Age before beauty, little girl; so I'll go first," drew his sixth card, "I activate the Psi-Station spell card," whe Divine activated that card, four transformers appeared, each one marked in one corner of his spell/trap card zone; they charged up and created a barrier around the five card zones, "Next I summon the monster know as (1) Krebons(1200/400)," the monster he summoned appeared as some sort of cybernetic jester; its robes were violet with golden curcuit linings, its limbs were barely attached to its torso, and its visor prsented characters to make a sinister glare, "Whenever a Psychic-Type monster is summoned by normal means, the effect of Psy-Station activate," the four transformers charged up and electricuted the monster, but Krebons din't flinch.

"What's happening to your monster?" Kat asked worriedly.

"By paying 500 of my life points, a Pychic's ATK power in increased by 300, and its level by 1," a red aura appeared around Divine. When Krebons was freed from the electric shock, it still produced an electric surge, indicating how stronger it got.

Kat: 4000

Divine: 3500

Krebons: (Lv: 3/ATK: 1500)

"And to end my turn, I'm placing these two cards face-down," three reverse cards appeared.

"Okey-doke, then I guess it's my turn! Nya!" Katherine drew her sixth card, "First i'll activate Dian Keto The Cure Master, increasing my life points by 1000!" when Kat slapped the spell onto her disk, a white aura surrounded her and boosted her life points.

Kat: 5000

Divine: 3500

"Next I'll play (6) Neko Warrior(1400/800) in ATK mode!" a silver-haired neko appeared; it wore a blue-and-white shinobi outfit, wielding a pair of long slender blades, one red and the other blue, "When Neko Warrior is summoned to the field, I can remove up to three spell or trap cards from my deck and send them to my graveyard! Then, when she attacks, she gets 100 ATK during the battle phase for every card removed by her effect!" Kat searched her deck and removed three cards to her graveyard slot, "Now, Neko Warrior, show then what you can do! Attack Krebons with Neko Ninja Strike!" the warrior twurled her blades and made a dash towards the harlequin.

Neko Warrior: (ATK: 1700)

"By attacking Krebons with a simple attack you activated his special ability," as if by command, several transpatent lime-green cubes appeared around Krebons. The cubes formed together to create a barrier surounding the monster, which perfectly fortified it against Neko Warrior's twin-sword attack, "For a small price of 800 life points, Krebons can conjure up an aura of cybernetic data to defend itself from any attack."

Kat: 5000 (31)

Divine: 2700

"Amazing abilities! That means Divine's Krebon can shelter itself from any attack that comes at him, all at the cost of 800 life points!"

"I guess i'll place a face-down! N-E-K-O, I end my turn!" a single face-down appeared in front of Katherine.

"It's my turn again," Divine drew, "From my hand I summon (2) Mind Protector(0/2200)," beside Krebons came a cyborg with golden armor; a violet jewel was on each of its palms and a brain was encased in purple glass on its head. After it was summoned, the Psi-Station charged it with power, "And with Psi-Station's effect, he gains another 300 ATK points and an extra level.

Kat: 5000 (31)

Divine: 2200

Mind Protector: (ATK: 300/ Lv: 4)

"And then i'll activate my face-down card, the Emergency Teleport spell card!" one of Divine's reverse cards flipped, "This card paves way to a level-3 or lower Pychic monster from my deck and straight to the field. So now i'll use its power to call upon (3) Psychic Jumper(100/1500)!" an electrically surged portal appeared and out came yet another psychic: its open brown overcoat and black leather pants barely protected his scawny, pale skin clinging to its bones. The black sunglasses also covered its beady, bugging eyes (ATK: 100), "Next I play my second face-down, the trap known as Psychic Rejuvenation! This gives me 1000 life points for every psychic monster I have on the field," the three psychic released a fog of golden stardust, which rained upon Divine.

Kat: 5000 (31)

Divine: 5200

"And now I tune my Krebons with my Mind Protector in order to synchro-summon (4) Psychic Lifetrancer(2400/2000)!" the harlequin separated into three synchro-gates to suround the golden robot, which transformed into four stars. Out of a flash of light, a beautiful teenage girl appeared. Her long raven hair reached below her thighs, her blue bodysuit clung tightly on her curves like a second skin, and on her left hand, was a metallic robot arm, "Now I activate Lifetrancer's special ability: once every turn, I can remove a psychic in my graveyard from play to gain 1200 more life points; a little effect I would like to call, Telekinetic Solar," after removing Mind Protector from his duel disk and pocketing it, Lifetrancer created an orb of bright solar energy. She used her telekinetic powers to lift the orb over divine, and release even more sparkling stardust.

Kat: 5000 (31)

Divine: 6400

"Wth that done, its time to score on some even more life points! Psychic Lifetrancer, attack Neko Warrior with Telekinetic Lunar!" the young psychic conjured up another orb, except this one was created of dark lunar energy. She hurled the orb at the feline shinobi until...

"I play my face-down spell card, Half-Shut! By cutting my neko's ATK points in half, she can be indestructible in battle!" when the quick-play spell flipped open, Neko Warrior's strength was sapped by an ominous aura (ATK: 700), and then that strengh was materialized into a barrier that surounded her. When the attack connected, it created wave of dark energy around the barrier. It protected the brave warrior from the attack, but not from the dramatic incease of gravity which suddenly and quickly forced her to her knees. As soon as the gravity went back to normal, the kitty-kunoichi was finally able to catch her breath and rise from the crater the gravitational force created.

Kat: 3300 (31)

Divine: 6400

What both surprised and frightened Kat was the surge of electricity which somehow corsed through her body during Psychic Lifetrancer's attack; and she didn't like it any better than seeing her monster being assaulted like that, "What was that shock I just felt?"

"That? Oh, that's just a little something I can do when I duel. Whenever I attack with the monster and activate a spell, the damage you take becomes real," hearing that, the whole audience mumbled in wonder. Could there be such a person who can do that?


Gabriella: "Real damage?"

Ken: "Oh, man! I can't believe what i'm hearing!"

Nathan: "Believe it, Kenichi; he's a psychic duelist."

Everyone: "A PSYCHIC?"


Back in the private box, Goodwin wasn't all too hapy about the events taking place.

"Lazar, would you mind explaining to me how someone else of his ability came to be here?" he growled.

"Heh-heh, actually I had no idea he can do that," Lazar chuckled nervously, "I checked his files but I found nothing."

"This person could endanger the audience if he were to proceed. Tell the M.C. to expunge the match. Tell him Divine is to be disqualified right this minu-"

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that," both the Director and Vice-Director quickly looked back to see the person least expected to be met: it was the same red-haired person from before, "This duel won't be canceled unless Divine has a say-so in it."


"But let's have a time-out from the duel, okay?" Divine insisted, "I've been hearing rumors about a few people harboring a couple of Satellites from Sector Security a few nights back, namely a Mister Jason Hutchins."

Somehow, Gabriella knew exactly what Divine is trying to do, 'Oh please, Katherine, don't tell him...'

"i've gathered information from, well, an anonymous source, and it looks like someone took in someone with a criminal marker into their home at the Tops for the night. Do you know who that was, Miss Cheshire?"

Gabriella's heartrate pistoned as she awaited for the answer. The tension was really irritating her while she waited. After what seemed like for an eternity, the answer came through Katherine's lips...

"Of course I do! Me and my sister found him that night!"

The entire audience gasped.

"Oh, you did, did you?" Divine smugly smiled, "Then I guess that make you both as bad as him!"

"Hey, Jason's not bad!" Katherine stamped her foot, "He was really hurt when we found him! He was real nice and he also dueled with me when he woke up-"

"Does it look like anyone cared what he did with you? You should've been more concerned about what he would've done to you if he did woke up," everyone murmured in agreement, "Look, you may think he's a nice guy, little girl, but i'm sure he's just some rough-necked punk just like all the other Satelites!"

"Yeah? And how would you know about Jason?" Katherine snapped, "You don't even know Jason! So there!" she stuck a raspberry at Divine.

"Don't know, huh?" Divine retaliated, "Listen, you don't have to know a Satellite to know the carnage and chaos they're capable of. I know for a fact that guy's no different. Just wait, soon enough that guy is gonna have with you sister, Katherine. And you won't know until it's too late."

"Well, Jason isn't like that!"

"It's just a matter of time, little girl; and it's why naive, happy-go-lucky girls like you easy target. Well, i'm here to teach you how cruel the world can be, with this card!" Divine's third reverse card flipped open, "With Urgent Tuning in play, I can perform a synchro-summon during the battle phase! So I tune my Psychic Jumper with my Psychic Lifetrancer!" Jumper levetated upward and turned into two synchro-gates. The gates surounded Lifetrancer, whom was dissolved into seven stars. The light ignited for the summoning, with Divine engulfed in the very column of energy as he chanted:

"Stars of verlism, unite as one! Unlock the gate of cyberspace to uncover the arms, and array me with the rods of destruction! Synchro-Summon!"

After the light faded away, Divine appeared a whole lot diferent than before. To everyone's surprise, he was now wearing white armor run with gold and blue circuits, "From the depths of the cyber world, enter (5) Hyper Psychic Blaster(3000/2500)!" the armored psychic's batterypack attached to his back contained long curved wings folded into it. His face was covered with a platinum-white helmet with a cybernetic blue eye in the center.

"Wow-wee! 3000 ATK points! Only the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Isis' Blue-Eyes Divine Dragon have that much fire power! Just what is our little Neko to do?"

"Our little Neko is going to feel the fury of my Huper Psychic Blaster, and delete some more life points!" Divine held up a bulky black laser-blaster at Neko Warrior, "Data Blaster, fire!" his Data Blaster fired a beam of pulsing blue energy at the kunoichi. The barrier was still active due to Half-Shut, but Katherine's life points weren't safe as she trilled in pain.

Kat: 1000 (31)

Divine: 6400

"Kat's down to her last 1000 life points!" Jason stated, "She won't be standing for long if she keep on dueling!"

"...that's why she won't keep dueling," without uttering another word, Gabriella shot up from her seat and headed towards the exit...

"Hey, wait up!" with Jason following suit.

Katherine was exerting to stay conscious. She hasn't felt any more upset than she was in her entire life, "This is too scary! I wanna go home, now! I wanna quit!"

"Um, uh sorry, I just had a word with the Director, and I'm afraid this duel must continue, meaning no one goes anywhere unless a player's life points go to zero!"

The crowds weren't pleased to say the least.

"You must be joking!"

"You're gonna let that guy hammer a little girl like that?"

"That's not right!"

Katherine wasn't sure if sue could master over her opponent now. Not only is she way behind on life points, she's also facing a monster with 3000 ATK point. Could she have made a mistake coming here? Is she too young to handle the older duelists? Fear has clouded her judgement as she prayed for this whole nightmare to be over. She was completely scared.

...and Divine is savoring every bit of it!


DUEL-MON DATABASE

(1) Krebons

Stats: [Psychic / Tuner] LV2 ATK/1200 DEF/ 400

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: When this card is selected as an attack target, by paying 800 Life Points, negate the attack

(2) Mind Protector

Stats: [Psychic/Effect] LV3 ATK/ 0 DEF/2200

Attribute: LIGHT

Effect: The controller of this card pays 500 Life Points during each of their End Phases. (This is not optional.) No monster with an ATK of 2000 or less can declare an attack except Psychic-Type monsters

(3) Psychic Jumper

Stats: [Psychic/Tuner] LV2 ATK/ 100 DEF/1500

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: Once per turn, you can pay 1000 Life Points and select 1 face-up monster your opponent controls and 1 Psychic-Type monster you control, except "Psychic Jumper". Switch control of those monsters. Their battle position cannot be changed this turn, except with a card effect.

(4) Psychic Lifetrancer

Stats: [Psychic/Synchro/Effect] LV7 ATK/2400 DEF/2000

Attribute: EARTH

Synchro-Requirements: 1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters

Effect: Once per turn, you can remove from play 1 Psychic-Type monsterfrom your Graveyard to gain 1200 Life Points.

(5) Hyper Psychic Blaster

Stats: [Psychic/Synchro/Effect] LV9 ATK/3000 DEF/2500

Attribute: EARTH

Synchro-Requirements: 1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner Psychic-Type Monster

Effect: During battle between this attacking card and a Defense Position monster whose DEF is lower than the ATK of this card, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent. If this card attacks a Defense Position monster whose DEF is lower than the ATK of this card, gain Life Points equal to the difference at the end of the Damage Step.

(6) Neko Warrior

Stats: [Fairy/Effect] LV4 ATK/1400 DEF/800

Attribute: EARTH

Effect: This card is also Warrior-Type. When Summoned, you can remove from play up to 3 Spell/Trap cards in your Graveyard. When this card attacks, it gains 100 ATK for each Spell/Trap card you have removed from play.

(This card is created by Ryo from . All rights go to him.)


Gabriella: Now let's see what's up ahead on the next YuGiOh 5D's!: My own sister is getting beaten to the floor, and Goodwin's doing nothing about it! Can Kat step up and beat that psychic jerk? Find out on the next Stardust Accelerator!